Post by Penelope Lloyd on May 21, 2010 21:26:47 GMT
Full Name: Penelope ‘Penny’ Rachel Lloyd
Alias: N/A
Age: 23
Birthday: March 14th 1989
Hometown: Twickenham, Middlesex, UK
Current Occupation: PA for Senator David Greene
Appearance: Rather petite in both stature and weight, Penny has small and rather doll-like features. No matter the situation or weather, she has rosy cheeks and her dark eyes sparkle like they’re glazed with tears. Her hair is naturally quite dark though on moving to New York, she dyed it a dirty blonde yet has recently gone back to her natural colour. Her fashion sense can be seen as boho and generally consists of wool jumpers and bright jewellery.
Personality: Penny is a natural optimist, seeing the best in situations and in people. Her very nature is to seek out new friendships and new adventures, leading her to be branded by some as a hopeless dreamer.
Powers: None. Penny is human.
History: Born in Middlesex, Penelope Lloyd was the only child of Grace Carpenter and Rodger Lloyd - a couple married too young. They lived in suburbia, keeping up with the Joneses and pruning the roses in the garden as if this was the life they’d dreamed of all along. Rodger worked in a bank and his wife in a café and together they made enough to know they were secure when Grace fell pregnant with Penny. Born on an unusually cold day in March, Penelope Lloyd was born with a constantly winter-struck appearance, causing her father to nickname her his little snowflake when she was little.
Growing up in Middlesex, Penelope attended Lady Eleanor Holles School independent girls-school where she excelled in lessons and made good friends with two other swots, Maxine and Heather. She was a teacher’s pet, but this did not concern her as it allowed her and her friends to use the art room at lunch where Penny would practise painting and sketching with her rather vain friends as models. Discovering her skill for art, Penny decided that it was a skill she wished to exploit for a career and spent hours scanning the net for a university art programme in some exciting location.
All of Penny’s plotting hit something of a wall when she was sixteen however, and her parents divorced, leaving Penny (who had presumed she was living in a perfect household) rather devastated. Her father moved out of the family home into a poky flat in the East End where Penny came to spend her weekends, painting murals over the woodchip. While Penny’s mother saw her art as nothing more than a hobby that distracted her from her studies, her father was more encouraging and would often hide a new pack of paints in her bag for her to uncover when she returned to Twickenham.
During her A2 year, Penny sat her parents both down (on either side of her mother’s newly upholstered sofa), and announced her plans to complete her university education in New York. Her mother was aghast with the reckless-sounding plan but her father simply grinned and told her he thought it was a wonderful idea. Helping Penny to sort out her courses and finances, her father later made another announcement - he was going to New York too, just in case Penny needed him. His ex-wife was at a loose end, realising she was losing her grip on her only child and seemed unable to come to terms with the prospect of being across the sea from her but nothing would change Penny’s mind.
Gaining her A2s, Penny and her father set off for New York, leaving her mother and her reluctant wishes of good luck back in England. Penny fell in love with the city straight away and though her father found it something of a culture shock, he too grew to love the coloured-light landscape. Penny found a small apartment, a few blocks from her fathers and began majoring in Art History with a minor in Studio Art from NYU. While here, she met a fellow NYU-student by the name of Connor. Connor had been something of a change from Penny’s usual friends, starting with the fact that he was male and she had largely spent her life surrounded by girls and ending with their polar opposite interests. Connor was far more science-y than the arty Penny but they made firm friends, singing badly along to ‘Penny Lane’ by the Beatles when the TV failed to spark their interest. Penny would use his walls (somewhat larger than her own) for murals and in return she would listen to his many theories based around his fascination with mutants.
With her blooming new friendship and interesting courses, Penny felt like her life was approaching perfect and believed she’d found a home in New York. And then everything was turned upside down. Connor had been working on something she didn’t quite understand, but it seemed like some kind of figuring out of a mutant-based conspiracy theory and she’d got so wound up in his excitement that she’d failed to see the danger until it was too late. The pair had taken a road trip together but Penny had returned alone with no idea about what had happened to Connor. For months, she tried to piece together his disappearance but found no trace of him - no easy paper trail to follow.
Heartbroken and only nineteen, Penny decided to shake up her own life again and announced to just her father this time that she was leaving New York. People didn’t just vanish into thin air, she had argued, so Connor was out there, and she was going to find him. At her father’s insistence, she only gave herself a year before she promised to call off her search but she felt she owed Connor at least that year. So, she’d packed her bags and begun the fruitless goose chase across the east coast for a year, finding dead ends at every turn. Finally admitting defeat, Penny felt like she couldn’t just return to New York and to Connor’s flat (which she had traded for her own in the hope he’d return to it) and so had run back to Twickenham and her mother.
Her mother seemed rather smug with herself at her daughter’s return, as if it proved that she had been right all along and Penny didn’t ever feel up to correcting her. Instead, she and her mother made pleas for her to attend Godolphin and Latymer girls school to gain some extra A-levels in a year so she could take different classes at university in England. However, after completing her A-levels, Penny felt like once again she had outgrown the little island that was home and with a few sharp parting words to her mother left to return to New York with all the scars it had left on her the first time round with the goal of returning to university to major in Social and Cultural Analysis and minor in Psycology.
She was part-way through her course when she first started hearing about Senator David Greene, the openly anti-mutant politician who had proposed the MBI. Deciding now was time to take affirmative action and do something that would both give her purpose and honour Connor's memory, she quit school again and earned herself a position as first a secretary in Greene's office before climbing the ranks to be his PA.
Other information:
-Penny drives a mint green 1965 VW Beetle her father bought her for her nineteenth birthday
Family: (NPCs)
Grace Elizabeth Carpenter - Mother
Rodger James Lloyd - Father
PB: Carey Mulligan
Alias: N/A
Age: 23
Birthday: March 14th 1989
Hometown: Twickenham, Middlesex, UK
Current Occupation: PA for Senator David Greene
Appearance: Rather petite in both stature and weight, Penny has small and rather doll-like features. No matter the situation or weather, she has rosy cheeks and her dark eyes sparkle like they’re glazed with tears. Her hair is naturally quite dark though on moving to New York, she dyed it a dirty blonde yet has recently gone back to her natural colour. Her fashion sense can be seen as boho and generally consists of wool jumpers and bright jewellery.
Personality: Penny is a natural optimist, seeing the best in situations and in people. Her very nature is to seek out new friendships and new adventures, leading her to be branded by some as a hopeless dreamer.
Powers: None. Penny is human.
History: Born in Middlesex, Penelope Lloyd was the only child of Grace Carpenter and Rodger Lloyd - a couple married too young. They lived in suburbia, keeping up with the Joneses and pruning the roses in the garden as if this was the life they’d dreamed of all along. Rodger worked in a bank and his wife in a café and together they made enough to know they were secure when Grace fell pregnant with Penny. Born on an unusually cold day in March, Penelope Lloyd was born with a constantly winter-struck appearance, causing her father to nickname her his little snowflake when she was little.
Growing up in Middlesex, Penelope attended Lady Eleanor Holles School independent girls-school where she excelled in lessons and made good friends with two other swots, Maxine and Heather. She was a teacher’s pet, but this did not concern her as it allowed her and her friends to use the art room at lunch where Penny would practise painting and sketching with her rather vain friends as models. Discovering her skill for art, Penny decided that it was a skill she wished to exploit for a career and spent hours scanning the net for a university art programme in some exciting location.
All of Penny’s plotting hit something of a wall when she was sixteen however, and her parents divorced, leaving Penny (who had presumed she was living in a perfect household) rather devastated. Her father moved out of the family home into a poky flat in the East End where Penny came to spend her weekends, painting murals over the woodchip. While Penny’s mother saw her art as nothing more than a hobby that distracted her from her studies, her father was more encouraging and would often hide a new pack of paints in her bag for her to uncover when she returned to Twickenham.
During her A2 year, Penny sat her parents both down (on either side of her mother’s newly upholstered sofa), and announced her plans to complete her university education in New York. Her mother was aghast with the reckless-sounding plan but her father simply grinned and told her he thought it was a wonderful idea. Helping Penny to sort out her courses and finances, her father later made another announcement - he was going to New York too, just in case Penny needed him. His ex-wife was at a loose end, realising she was losing her grip on her only child and seemed unable to come to terms with the prospect of being across the sea from her but nothing would change Penny’s mind.
Gaining her A2s, Penny and her father set off for New York, leaving her mother and her reluctant wishes of good luck back in England. Penny fell in love with the city straight away and though her father found it something of a culture shock, he too grew to love the coloured-light landscape. Penny found a small apartment, a few blocks from her fathers and began majoring in Art History with a minor in Studio Art from NYU. While here, she met a fellow NYU-student by the name of Connor. Connor had been something of a change from Penny’s usual friends, starting with the fact that he was male and she had largely spent her life surrounded by girls and ending with their polar opposite interests. Connor was far more science-y than the arty Penny but they made firm friends, singing badly along to ‘Penny Lane’ by the Beatles when the TV failed to spark their interest. Penny would use his walls (somewhat larger than her own) for murals and in return she would listen to his many theories based around his fascination with mutants.
With her blooming new friendship and interesting courses, Penny felt like her life was approaching perfect and believed she’d found a home in New York. And then everything was turned upside down. Connor had been working on something she didn’t quite understand, but it seemed like some kind of figuring out of a mutant-based conspiracy theory and she’d got so wound up in his excitement that she’d failed to see the danger until it was too late. The pair had taken a road trip together but Penny had returned alone with no idea about what had happened to Connor. For months, she tried to piece together his disappearance but found no trace of him - no easy paper trail to follow.
Heartbroken and only nineteen, Penny decided to shake up her own life again and announced to just her father this time that she was leaving New York. People didn’t just vanish into thin air, she had argued, so Connor was out there, and she was going to find him. At her father’s insistence, she only gave herself a year before she promised to call off her search but she felt she owed Connor at least that year. So, she’d packed her bags and begun the fruitless goose chase across the east coast for a year, finding dead ends at every turn. Finally admitting defeat, Penny felt like she couldn’t just return to New York and to Connor’s flat (which she had traded for her own in the hope he’d return to it) and so had run back to Twickenham and her mother.
Her mother seemed rather smug with herself at her daughter’s return, as if it proved that she had been right all along and Penny didn’t ever feel up to correcting her. Instead, she and her mother made pleas for her to attend Godolphin and Latymer girls school to gain some extra A-levels in a year so she could take different classes at university in England. However, after completing her A-levels, Penny felt like once again she had outgrown the little island that was home and with a few sharp parting words to her mother left to return to New York with all the scars it had left on her the first time round with the goal of returning to university to major in Social and Cultural Analysis and minor in Psycology.
She was part-way through her course when she first started hearing about Senator David Greene, the openly anti-mutant politician who had proposed the MBI. Deciding now was time to take affirmative action and do something that would both give her purpose and honour Connor's memory, she quit school again and earned herself a position as first a secretary in Greene's office before climbing the ranks to be his PA.
Other information:
-Penny drives a mint green 1965 VW Beetle her father bought her for her nineteenth birthday
Family: (NPCs)
Grace Elizabeth Carpenter - Mother
Rodger James Lloyd - Father
PB: Carey Mulligan
